A technician is trying to recover information on a computer that has been hidden or deleted on purpose in order to hide evidence of a crime. Which type of task is the technician performing?

Data recovery

Explanation:

Data recovery -

It is the method involved in computer, where the lost, damaged or corrupted file or data is gained back again, is referred to as data recovery.

The information is recorded by some secondary method, when the file cannot be accessed in the original manner.

Hence, from the given scenario of the question,

The correct term is data recovery.